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Rare Books and Special Collections Series
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Scripts & Performance Pieces

This series consists of scripts written by Endre Farkas for plays that were performed live. These scripts include The Haunted House, Murders, A Minute to Go, The Heart of the Matter, Midnight Jazzing, I Love You Je T’aime, The Every Day, No More Easy Love Poems, Voices, Time, and Circus of Words.

Photographs & visual materials

This series consists of photographs, posters, and advertisements for Endre Farkas’ plays and associated artists. It also includes maps from Farkas’ trip to Budapest.

Activities

The series consists of records created in the fulfilment of the Zoological Society’s mandate and goals to host events, trips, speakers, and to donate to and support worthy causes. This includes event and project planning records with related financial documents and reports, guest lists, communications to members, and correspondence. A large part of this series is concerned with the Society’s whale watching excursions and their whale conservation efforts. These files include an annual pamphlet called Whales Alive! = les Baleines!, flyers, newspaper advertisements and published articles, all promoting whale watching field trips. Others include donations, correspondence, and financial documents relating to issues surrounding conservation. Other types of activities covered in this series are field trips (primarily around Quebec but also a few internationally), film screenings (known as theatre nights), art shows, fundraisers and lectures. The field trips and some events of the Society are documented in 5193 photographs stored in 24 photo albums (1989-2009). Apart from events, projects undertaken by the Society are included, such as their efforts to build a wildlife park in Montreal’s West Island, the conservation of owls, lynxes, birds, turtles and flowers, and their wildlife pavilion at Man and His World.
There are large gaps in the Activities series. The Society’s founding project, the Montreal Aquarium and Dolphin Arena, and their proposal for an ark at Expo ’67 are only included briefly in these records. For more information on these projects, see the Administration series files MSG1164.c5.f11, f12, f13. Also, there are few photos documenting the Society’s activities before 1989.

Subject files

Series contains a 5 subject files relating to specific projects or organizations, including the Bewick Society, a bookbinding project of bookbinder Joanne Sonnischen, the publication of a Thomas Bewick bibliography by the University of California Los Angeles, a talk on Bewick given by Gordon Williams, and events related to Bewick held at the Grolier Club in New York.

Associations and events

Series consists of files documenting Julian Armstrong's leadership in culinary organizations such as Cuisine Canada and her participation as a judge in cooking contests.

Poems & Poetry

This series consists of poems written by Endre Farkas. Many of them are sorted alphabetically. All documents relating to other poets and poetry-related endeavours. Newsletters and bulletins from the Montreal Poets’ Information Exchange are also included.

Minutes

Series consists of minute books from various Montreal camps and committees, including the Carrick-Deeside Camp, McKenzie (MacKenzie) Camp, Mount Stephen Camp, Past Grand Chief Association, Social Committee, and the Montreal District Committee.

Membership

This series contains material representing a core activity of the fraternal association: member recruitment and management. Welcome packages, membership cards, member records, and recruitment manuals and documentation are featured significantly in this series. Recruitment was often conducted by volunteers during Highland Games, golf tournaments, and folk festivals, and at malls, banquets, and pub nights.

Minutes

Series consists of minute books for meetings held between 1991 and 2010.

Insurance records

Series consists chiefly of financial ledgers with details about insurance policyholders and payments. Contains records related to both adult and juvenile policies, ordered chronologically. Earliest ledger dates from 1939. Series also contains miscellaneous files including insurance premium payments receipts from 2006-2007, monthly reports from 2005 and 2006, and correspondence regarding insurance.

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